On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:20 PM Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
For some reasons, it is true for "kitimaguru", but if I search for "lamp" (EN) versus "lampe" (FR), or "key" (English) versus "clé" (French), I really do not get the same results at all
I noticed that Hay just added a locale switcher, which as of this writing allows you to switch into Dutch. As the list of locales expands, you should get better results in each of those languages.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/sdsearch/
When the language is set to English, it will match against labels/aliases in other languages, but will privilege matches against English labels/aliases, and show the English description. It's basically the equivalent of typing into the Wikidata search box, with the Wikidata language set to English. Because there is no English match for the Swahili word, that one works well even when the language is set to English -- it'll rank the Swahili match as the first result. But if you type "clé" into the Wikidata search box in English, the first result is "Cleveland".
Warmly,
Erik